Browsing by Author "Downes, Jeremy"

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'And Yet God Has Not Said a Word': the Dramatic Monologue as Inverted and Secularized Prayer

Halbert, Steven (2008-05-15)

Nearly a decade ago, Dennis Taylor identified certain practical applications of religious criticism as a gap within the critical discourses of academia. This gap alarmed me as I read Robert Browning’s “Soliloquy of the ...

“Being sexless, wilt thou be”: Nineteenth-Century British Poetry and the Challenge of the Androgynous Mind

Haines, Leslie (2019-04-24)

This dissertation occasions a recognition and discussion of androgyny by taking on the challenge of Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s nineteenth-century claim that “a great mind must be androgynous.” Drawing on Judith Butler’s ...

Graphic Shakespeare: Understanding the Contact Zone of Shakespeare Adaptation in Graphic Narrative

Haberstroh, Robert (2010-04-09)

This thesis investigates key features of Shakespearean graphic narratives from works produced by Classical Comics as well as Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman comic series. These graphic narratives have enjoyed both commercial ...

Hedge Days-- 1981-1994

Atkins Thiele, Natalie (2008-08-15)

This thesis is a collection of thirty-two poems preceded by an introduction. The introduction explores my use of myth to craft a dynamic, evocative style; it also analyzes my ""mythmaking"" as a way of creating distance ...

“Not a Prayer except Ourselves”: Christian Theological Feminism in the Poetry of Frances Harper, Emily Dickinson, Vassar Miller, and Sharon Olds

Hakima, Rabi'a (2011-11-21)

Luce Irigaray proposes the possibility of an ethical society in which woman is no longer subjugated to man’s concept of her identity but has an identity of her own. As Irigaray and other theological feminists have pointed ...

'A Participant in the World': Identity, Change, and the Closet in Angels in America

Blair, Nancy (2008-05-15)

Tony Kushner’s Angels in America consists of two plays that examine the lives of a group of gay men living in New York City during the mid-1980s. Kushner revised Perestroika, the second play, in 1995, and made further ...

Popular Music and the Myth of Englishness in British Poetry

East, Brian (2011-04-21)

This dissertation deconstructs the myth of Englishness through a comparative analysis of intersections between popular music and the poetry of the British Isles. In particular, my project explores intersections where popular ...

Truth and Method on Black Mountain: The Hermeneutic Stances of Charles Olson, Robert Creeley, and Robert Duncan

Boone, Nicholas (2007-12-15)

This dissertation examines the poetry and poetics of three poets (Charles Olson, Robert Creeley, and Robert Duncan) who taught at Black Mountain College, an experimental art school, in the 1950s. It examines these poets’ ...

The Utopian Aestheticism of Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray and Gertrude Stein's Three Lives

Gordon, Linda (2012-04-30)

This study reads Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890, 1891) and Gertrude Stein’s Three Lives (written 1905, published 1909) through Paul Cézanne’s radical aesthetics of surface, and is grounded in H. G. Wells’ ...